A knowledge-based approach to the evaluation of fault trees

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-85

  Hwang, Yann Jong ^a   Chow, Louis R ^a   Huang, Henry C ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY;

FAULT TREE CONSTRUCTOR; INTEGRATED SOFTWARE PROGRAM;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030121175     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0951-8320(95)00126-3     Document Type: Article

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